powershell script to play a music folder on windows startup - windows

How to use powershell to autoplay a folder of mp3 files using Windows Media Player on Windows 7 startup. I figure that there are two aspects: 1) the script must run automatically when Windows starts up 2) the script must call Media Player to open the folder and play the files therein


Perhaps you could make a playlist from that folder in Windows Media Player.
Then you could call windows media player with a commandline switch, which tells it to open and play a certain playlist. You can find some information on commandline switches for WMP here:
[http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1389/windows-media-player-wmp-11-command-line-options/]
When that is done, you would create a scheduled job, to fire your WMP script every time you log on.
Information for that part can be found here:
[https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748993(v=ws.11).aspx]

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It seems that you can't play mp4 files when Zune is running. However, you can still debug your application by connecting to your phone using WPConnect.exe which by default is installed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Tools\WPConnect. You'll need to close Zune before running WPConnect, but after you have run it, you should be able to F5 in Visual Studio and the the debugger running your code on the phone.
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